So Jayla is pretty sure she has figured out how to avoid getting into trouble. It is so crazy, it almost makes sense. If she does something she is not supposed to do, for example, put a coating of lip gloss on her mouth that's thick enough to rival the cream cheese layer on a Tim Hortons bagel, I might be inclined to ask her to stop applying even more of this flavored goop.
So in comes the request to stop. "jayla, please give the lip gloss to mommy, you have enough on"
Jayla's response is simple. "No Mommy. Don't talk to me. Okay?" Oh, and you better know she says it with perfect annuniaction and even raises her one hand, using it to emphasize her words.
Gee, I didn't even realize that *I* did that. But I can guarantee that is where she got it from.
So I ask her to hand it over again, and this time she realizes asking me to shut up just isn't producing the results that she wants. So she tells me to just fuck off all together.
"Mommy, just go away. Okay?" with hand waving included.
Well...at least she gets right to the point. And by adding "Okay?" at the end of her ever-so polite, but honest, requests, it seems to make it seem as though she may actually be asking me. When I don't think in her mind she really cares if it's okay with me or not.
